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May 29
May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). There are 216 days remaining.
Events
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757 - Paul I succeeds Stephen III as pope
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1167 - Battle of Legano , in which The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
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1414 - Council of Constance.
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1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire and renaming the city as İstanbul.
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1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England.
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1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
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1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
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1733 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.
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1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
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1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
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1864 - Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
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1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
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1886 - Putney Bridge opened in west London.
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1903 - Alexander Obrenovic, king of Serbia assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
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1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
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1914 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
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1919 - Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirm Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (see Arthur Eddington).
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1950 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match.
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1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia after 14 months.
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1999 - In Jerusalem, Israel, Charlotte Nilsson wins the forty-fourth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Take Me To Your Heaven".
Births
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1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
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1630 - King Charles II of England (d. 1685)
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1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799)
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1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
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1863 - Arthur Mold, controversial Lancashire fast bowler and alleged "chucker" (d. 1921)
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1874 - G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
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1880 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
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1893 - Max Brand, American author, war correspondent (d. 1944)
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1894 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
- 1894 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American writer, director (d. 1969)
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1903 - Bob Hope, comedian, actor (d. 2003)
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1906 - T.H. White, author (d. 1964)
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1914 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (see also 1953 above) (d. 1986)
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1914 - Eduard Pestel , scientist and engineer (d. 1988)
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1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
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1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
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1922 - Iannis Xenakis, composer (d. 2001)
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1933 - John Mayall, musician
- 1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
- 1933 - Edward Whittemore, writer
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1938 - Fay Vincent, former commissioner of baseball
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1939 - Al Unser, race car driver
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1940 - Farooq Leghari, former President of Pakistan
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1942 - Kevin Conway, actor
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1944 - Helmut Berger , actor
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1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
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1948 - Anthony Geary, actor
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1953 - Danny Elfman, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo")
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1956 - LaToya Jackson, musician
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1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
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1958 - Annette Bening, actress
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1959 - Rupert Everett, actor
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1959 - Adrian Paul, actor
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1961 - Melissa Etheridge, musician
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1963 - Lisa Whelchel, actress
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1967 - Noel Gallagher, musician
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1975 - Melanie Brown, musician, actress
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1984 - Carmelo Anthony, NBA basketball player
Deaths
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1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
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1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
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1500 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
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1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
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1866 - Winfield Scott, American general and presidential candidate (b. 1786)
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1892 - Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith) (b. 1817)
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1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, king of Serbia (b. 1876)
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1910 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
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1911 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
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1935 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
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1942 - John Barrymore, actor (b. 1882)
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1948 - Dame May Whitty, actress (b. 1865)
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1951 - Fanny Brice, American singer, comedienne, actress (b. 1891)
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1953 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (b. 1891)
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1979 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (b. 1892)
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1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (cardiac arrest) (b. 1938)
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1994 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, while in exile in Chile (b. 1912)
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1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning) (b. 1966)
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1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator (b. 1909)
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2004 - Sam Dash, chief counsel to Senate Watergate Committee (b. 1925)
- 2004 - Archibald Cox, Jr., Watergate special prosecutor, (b. 1912)
Holidays and observances
External links
May 28 - May 30 - April 29 - June 29 - listing of all days
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